'Agents of SHIELD' Will Make an Ultron Reference Tonight

In Season 4 of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Holden Radcliffe (John Hannah) has built an android named AIDA (Mallory Jansen), causing tension between Holden, Fitz (Ian De Caestecker), and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D., including new director Jeffrey Mace (Jason O’Mara). In a clip from the Season 4 winter finale “The Laws of Thermodynamics,” Mace learns AIDA is an android, prompting him to bring up an old wound: Ultron.

Since then, the MCU has only gotten weirder: A not insignificant amount of the human population have gained superpowers as Inhumans, while Doctor Strange unlocked the multiverse and other paranormal realms. As Holden said last week when AIDA accessed the quantum realm: “I’m building an interdimensional gateway with an android I built. If this works, I could die happy.”

Now, in “The Laws of Thermodynamics,” which airs tonight on ABC, Mace and Coulson (Clark Gregg) argue over whether or not to work with “enhanced individuals” like Daisy (Chloe Bennet) and Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna). When Mace suggests working with the science team — “AIDA specifically,” he says — Coulson reveals AIDA’s true nature as an android. “All cards on the table,” Coulson says, “AIDA’s an android.”

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